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How popular is the baby name Zak in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, see baby names similar to Zak and check out all the blog posts that mention the name Zak.

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Popularity of the Baby Name Zak

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According to data from Malta’s National Statistics Office, the most popular name-groups in Malta in 2014 were Elena/Elenia/Helena/Ella and Luke/Luca/Lucas.

Here are Malta’s top 10 girl and boy name-groups of 2014:

Girl Names

Boy Names

Elena/Elenia/Helena/Ella, 97 baby girls

Julia/Yulia/Julianne, 72

Emma/Emmanuela/Ema, 70

Eliza/Elisa/Elizabeth/Elise, 69

Catherine/Katrina/Kate/Katya, 46

Maya/Mia/Myah, 44

Lea/Leah/Leia, 42

Emilia/Emily/Emelie, 41

Amy/Aimee, 39

Maria/Marija/Mariah/Marie, 37 [tie]

Anna/Hannah/Ann, 37 [tie]

Luke/Luca/Lucas, 98 baby boys

Matthew/Matthias/Matteo, 97

Jacob/Jake, 77

Zachary/Zak/Zack, 59

Michael/Miguel/Mikhail, 53

Liam/William, 51 [tie]

John/Jean/Jonathan/Juan/Gan, 51 [tie]

Benjamin/Ben, 51

Kaiden/Kayden/Kai ,46 [tie]

Alexander/Alessandro/Alec, 46 [tie]

Andrew/Andreas/Andre/Andy, 45

Joseph/Beppe/Giuseppe/Josef, 40

Down in 15th place on the boys’ side is “Yannick/Yan” — both are versions of John, and yet they’re not part of the John group, which is tied for 6th.

Speaking of strange things…

The current Maltese birth registration system does not allow for Maltese fonts, which essentially means that names with ċ such as Ċikku or Ċensa; with a ġ such as Ġorġ or Ġanna; and with a ż such as Liża or Ġużi, are out – or at least will be recorded without the essential dots which distinguish the Maltese phonetical sound.

I’ve seen governments (e.g., NWT, California) make excuses about not being able to render minority/ethnic names properly on birth certificates, but I’ve never heard of a country that couldn’t render names from its own national language.

The 98 baby girls of the Eliza/Lisa/Elsie/Elyse/Bettina group represent 4.8% of all baby girls born in Malta in 2012, and the 101 baby boys of the Matthew/Matthias/Matteo group represent 4.6% of all baby boys.

I have three earlier Malta lists (2006, 2007, 2009) here at NBN, but there are even more (2002 through 2012, inclusive) at the NSO website — use the link below.

A total of 4,143 babies were born in Malta in 2009. (In 2006, the number was 3,885.) These were the most popular baby names last year:

Boy Names

Luke/Luca (92 babies)

Matthew/Matthias/Matteo (84)

Jake (59)

Aiden (53)

Jaden/Jayden (51)

John/Giovanni/Jean (48)

Kaiden/Kayden (47)

Michael/Miguel/Mikele (46)

Nicholas/Nick (42)

Isaac/Izaak (39)

Nathan (38)

Liam/William (36)

Gabriel (36)

Benjamin/Ben (35)

Alexander/Alessandro/Alejandro (34)

Zachary/Zak (34)

James (33)

Daniel (33)

Denzel/Danzil (31)

Keiran (29)

Andre/Andrew/Andrea (26)

Sven (26)

Julian (25)

Kyle (24)

Joseph/Giuseppe/Beppe (24)

Girl Names

Maria/Mariah/Marie (82 babies)

Elena/Ylenia/Ella (79)

Christina/Kristina/Krista (63)

Eliza/Elizabeth/Lisa (52)

Amy/Aimee (49)

Julia/Gulia (45)

Maya/Maia (39)

Emma (39)

Martina (33)

Rihanna/Rhiana (32)

Jasmine/Yasmine (31)

Keira (29)

Mikela/Michaela (28)

Jade (27)

Hannah/Anna/Ann (26)

Nicole (25)

Mireille (25)

Hailey/Hayley (25)

Sarah/Sara (24)

Emilia (22)

Lea (22)

Thea (20)

Shania (18)

Katrina/Kate (18)

Amber (18)

Kailey/Kayleigh (18)

Faith (17)

Laura (17)

You’ll notice that Malta still lumps variants together. (They even lump non-variants like Elena and Ella together.) I’m not a big fan of this method because when groupings change from year to year, comparisons become impossible.

Malta also seems to have some issues with spelling. Aidan and Kieran became Aiden and Keiran between 2006 and 2009, for instance. And I’m sure “Gulia” was meant to be Giulia. (Though I do like the fact that there’s a “Julia/Gulia” grouping. Very Wedding Singer-esque.)